C., H A P'.¢. EplftIe to the ThcffalontanS. VER. IS (hall find in one kind or another plentifully rendred into their bofomes. The Meditation, me thinkes, cannot but reftraine in Gods children all carnali emulation, at the teeming pre- ferments of others in the fauours of God. I know not how it comes to palie amongft vs, fuch is our ignorance and infirmity, that the old Poets Complaint may be ta- ken vp amongfc vs. No man, aimed, is content with the Rate God allots him vnto : Eueiy man thinkes ano- thers Condition happier then his owner and that God bath not dealt fò liberally with him, as bee bath done with others. The people thinke it is well with Minders , whole whole life may be fpent in meditation of the Word of God;, whom God bath chofen to be his Inftruments to faue the foules of bis people. The Minder againe thinks it is well with the people,. to whom God bath commit- red care of no foules but their owne,and from whom hee expcas 1cire mealure of knowledge and obedience. The fubic &seyes are.dazelcd with the glory ofa Kingdome; and they are lute high in Goes fauour, that are eminent in authority abone others. The Magiftrate again thinkes it is well with the people, whole life ismolt retired from publiqueimployments; how (ecure liue they from enuy of the Ambitious , and from the Curfe of prophane Tongues ? In a word, (o emulous we are mof<, one at the fèeming aduantages of others by Gods fauour ; that 'tee is a rare man, like I o B s X Interpreter, one of a thoufand, who thinkes hisowne Rate and condition in eucry refpel beft for him. Againfk this emulation, we are fiored with Reafons in the Scripture. A s 6rff, it mutt bee thought of, that the Lord whom weferue, is an abfolute diipeler of his gifts, in what kind foeuer. Y I.r our eye twill, becaufe hi, it good ? Why fuller we him nor, to doe with his orrne rrh et he thinkergood ? Who likes
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